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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:09:17 -0500
To: "Jorge Llambias"
Subject: Re: [lojban] Englishistic
Cc: lojban@egroups.com, iad@MATH.BAS.BG
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From: Steven Belknap
I am skeptical about claims that Hindi does not have expressions
analogous to the English "still". There is overlap between the use of
"still" as an intensive and its use as an adverbial "up to the time".
Hindi may not have expressions which simultaneously convey these
meanings, but there is probably some way to simply say express them.
"Even" is simpler, as although it has multiple meanings, they are not
generally employed simultaneously. It is commonly used as an
intensive in English.
I suspect that Hindi *does* have expression(s) which mean "up to the
time" (perhaps hidden in Hindi tenses) and other expression(s) which
are intensive. These would seem to be necessary to clearly express
common ideas.
Does even Jorge agree, or am I still in error?
Ivan:
> >And Hindi doesn't have words for `still' or `already' at all; either
> >one can sort of be expressed by `even now',
--
Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria